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Help Rename the Crystal Cathedral

Catholic bishop seeks public ideas for rebranding the big glass church. Deadline is Feb. 20.

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February 8, 2012

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Our Lady of Perpetual Windex.

St. Schuller's.

Jesus Coast Plaza.

A request for public input in renaming the Crystal Cathedral is drawing ideas both serious and silly.

Last week, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange officially took ownership of the famous glass church. This week, Bishop Tod Brown began soliciting suggestions for rebranding the iconic building.

"It is our goal to make the new cathedral a gathering place for Catholics and other people of faith," Brown said in a statement posted online. "By asking for naming suggestions we begin the process of connecting this wonderful structure and its future to our faith and the larger community."

Brown said the new name should "refer to the nature and person of Christ or to his activities as illustrated by the gospels."

The deadline for suggestions is Feb. 20. Brown will review the ideas and announce his choice sometime later.

But there's no rush.

Although the diocese now owns the property, the church won't officially turn Catholic for several years. As part of the purchase deal, the Crystal Cathedral's current congregation can continue using the church for three years. After that, the diocese will redesign and tweak the building before converting it to Catholicism.

To submit your nomination for the church's new moniker, visit the diocese's cathedral name website. Or tell us your ideas in the comments section below.

Related Topics: Catholic Church and Crystal Cathedral

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J

5:45 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Mirrored Stairway to Heaven

J

5:52 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Inauspicious reflective pointy feng shui cathedral

Tom Sheltraw

8:01 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Tower of Reflection.

Tom Sheltraw

8:08 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Reflections of Christ.

This would be the perfect concept--we are to be reflections of the Lord. Just as the Church/building is mirrored and reflects, so should we as Christians, (the Body of Christ) reflect the love and nature of our Savior.

Kevin

5:50 am on Wednesday, February 8, 2012

you got my vote!

Emily Knell

8:36 am on Wednesday, February 8, 2012

I cannot think of a better name than this:

MITES NON POSSIDEBUNT TERRAM

These mites anyway.

Kenneth Larson

4:06 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Because it is a crystal cathedral, I would relate a proposed new name to the celestial New Jerusalem described in Revelation 21 of the Bible as being a glorious city that is to come down in the future from God out of heaven. Maybe proposed names like Celestial New Jerusalem or Celestial City or Celestial Temple or Holy New Jerusalem or Great Celestial or Golden Celestial Cathedral or Light of Christ or Glorious Temple or The Glorious Celestial Cathedral or Cathedral of the Lamb or Christ Cathedral.